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Sharks on Cape Cod
This white shark was spotted off Chatham during a tagging cruise in 2010.During the last few summers the number of white sharks on Cape Cod appears to have increased. The presence…
Read MoreRe-fitting Atlantis
A work crew fits the boom to R/V Atlantis‘ new mizzen mast in this undated photograph from the Munro Shipyard in Chelsea, Mass. Atlantis served as WHOI’s globally ranging oceanographic…
Read MoreReady to Set Sail
A group of graduate students in the MIT/WHOI Joint Program gather on the deck of the (SSV) Corwith Cramer alongside the ship’s crew for the start of the 2011 Jake…
Read MoreAtlantis to Atlantis: Well Done
The science party and crew of R/V Atlantis send a special message to the crew of the space shuttle Atlantis.
Read MoreSteer Clear
A tassled scorpionfish (Scorpaenopsis oxycephala) lies camouflaged on a coral reef in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. These carnivorous fish—known for their venomous spines—often wait in disguise for prey to…
Read MoreFirst Cut
In the WHOI Core Lab, retiree and volunteer George Heimerdinger moves a length of sediment core encased in PVC pipe to the core splitter, where the PVC will be split…
Read MoreOnce More Unto the Rift
Giant clams up to one foot long thrive in the crevices around seafloor pillow lava, which vent hydrothermal fluids with chemical nutrients. This vent site in the Pacific on the…
Read MoreMapping the seafloor
Autonomous under water vehicles (AUVs) have become an ever present tool used by oceanographers. Here ocean engineer Hanumant Singh, tests SeaBED, the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) designed and built by…
Read MoreBarnacle Buoy
Instruments, buoys, and rigging lines placed in the sea attract a wide variety of organisms. After 13 months in the Chukchi Sea north of Alaska, this orange float sported a…
Read MoreRevisiting the Roses
Discovered in 1979 not far from the Galápagos Islands, the Rose Garden was an ocean scientist’s paradise, a hydrothermal vent site where six-foot tubeworms swayed in the shimmering breeze of…
Read MoreDispatches from the Arctic
Engineering Assistants Jim Ryder and Jeff Pietro assemble the tether of an Ice-Tethered Profiler (ITP). ITPs operate autonomously to acquire temperature and salinity measurements from the upper ocean under sea ice…
Read MoreRight Whale Ecology and Conservation
WHOI biologist Mark Baumgartner attaches an archival suction-cup tag to a North Atlantic right whale while the NOAA Ship Delaware II stands ready to begin environmental sampling in proximity to…
Read MoreHigh Up Down Under
Bundled against frigid Antarctic gales, MIT/WHOI Joint Program graduate student Andrea Burke strides over lava-strewn terrain around Mount Morning, an extinct volcano about 800 miles from the South Pole. In…
Read MoreLooking at Larval Fish
Joel Llopiz, a postdoctoral scholar in the WHOI Biology Department, studies how ocean food webs may differ at different latitudes. Working with fish ecologist Simon Thorrold, Llopiz analyzes isotopes in…
Read MoreSentry Lends a Hand in the Gulf
One year ago, oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil rig finally stopped flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. In December 2010, the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Sentry ventured to the…
Read MoreHappy as a Giant Clam
Tim Shank, a biologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), was thrilled to get samples of giant clams retrieved by the Alvin submersible during a 2002 expedition to the Galápagos…
Read MoreCold-water Diving
This video highlights the focus and skill needed for scientific diving in cold water—where heavy gear, limited time, and extreme conditions make every task challenging.
Read MoreBlue Water Diving
Learn how scientists use specialized diving techniques to study fragile, transparent animals like jellyfish in the open ocean.
Read MoreHave fins, will travel
The paddletail snapper (Lutjanus gibbus) gets around. Its habitat is reefs, and it can be found in tropical marine waters from the Red Sea, throughout Micronesia, north to Japan and south to…
Read MorePartners in Science
Cape Abilities project manager Trevor Harrison (right) works with Carol Dimock in WHOI scientist Rob Evans’ lab. Evans is partnering with Cape Abilities, an organization that supports people with disabilities…
Read MoreWhere River Meets Ocean
WHOI geochemist Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink samples a small stream in the “Ancient Forest” of the upper Fraser River basin as part of the Global Rivers Project. The region in British Columbia…
Read MoreSummer School
A school of Caranx sexfasciatus (bigeye trevally) swim in Kimbe Bay, located on the north shore of the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Part of the famous Coral…
Read MoreSign of the Times
This intriguing trail sign greeted the Fraser River Expedition led by WHOI’s Bernhard Peucker-Ehrenbrink in May in the woods of western Canada. The expedition was part of the Global Rivers…
Read MoreWell Done, Atlantis!
Today marks the planned final launch of the space shuttle Atlantis and NASA’s final shuttle mission. Atlantis is named for WHOI’s first research vessel, a 142-foot steel-hulled ketch that sailed…
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